TPRS/CI – create a Story with Card Magic: Capture the Criminal

Eric Herman is a Spanish/English TPRS/CI teacher. On his Youtube channel you can see several videos of English and Spanish TPRS/CI lessons.

Here the link to a Spanish lesson with a card trick that creates a story. Eric simulates how this would happen and play out in a class of students. He writes underneath huis video that it provides comprehensible input and that student engagement is super high! You as a teacher can retell/reask the story trick multiple times. Details of the story are asked such that every class comes up with a different version. This example is of a city criminal, but it could also be a zoo monkey, a school bully, a missing item, etc. The details he included for the story comes from those offered to him by actual classes. He calls it sheltered comprehensible input instruction. No targeted structures. Any language in the video that would be new to his classes is either orally glossed or a cognate.